ABSTRACT: The articles are : . 1. The integration of the Hungarian minority
in Slovakia - the language problem by Alena Zel'ova. 2. Bilingualism - yes or
not? by Jana Plichtova. 3. Schools in the Slovak Republic with instruction in
the Hungarian language - Present status, by Sona Gabzdilova. 4. Slovaks and
Hungarians in Slovakia, by Tatiana Rosova and Zora Butorova. 5. Changes of
national identity in historical development, by Stefan Sutaj. 4. Slovaks and
Hungarians in Slovakia

NOTE (MEETINGS): International symposium on national minorities in Central
Europe : minorities in politics : cultural and languages rights, org. by
Czechoslovak Committee of the European Cultural Foundation and Ministry of
Culture, Slovak Republic. Sponsored by European Cultural Foundation,
Amsterdam, Netherlands, Ministry of Culture of Slovak Republic, The Austrian
Federal Ministry of Science and Research, Know How Fund, United Kingdom, held
in Bratislava, (19911113-19911116), (C)

9.

Part VI, 1992

BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: part of a monograph

Part VI : Problems of identity and implementation of language rights /

ABSTRACT: The articles are : . 1. The German minority in Hungary, by
Gerhard Seewann. 2. The Slovak minority in Hungary: Does the modernization of
society mean the extinction of the ethnic community? by Anna Divicanova. 3.
Hungarian minorities in Europe, by Imre Molnar. 4. The problems of coexistence
in nationally mixed regions in the Czech Republic, by Gabriela Sokolova. 5.
Identity problems in the transition from communism to capitalism in Central
Europe, by Ralph Kinnear.

NOTE (MEETINGS): International symposium on national minorities in Central
Europe : minorities in politics : cultural and languages rights, org. by
Czechoslovak Committee of the European Cultural Foundation and Ministry of
Culture, Slovak Federal Republic Sponsored by European Cultural Foundation,
Amsterdam, Netherlands, Ministry of Culture of Slovak Federal Republic, The
Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research, Know How Fund, United
Kingdom, held in Bratislava, (19911113-19911116), (C)

NOTE (MEETINGS): International symposium on national minorities in Central
Europe : minorities in politics : cultural and languages rights, org. by
Czechoslovak Committee of the European Cultural Foundation and Ministry of
Culture, Slovak Republic. Sponsored by European Cultural Foundation,
Amsterdam, Netherlands, Ministry of Culture of Slovak Republic, The Austrian
Federal Ministry of Science and Research, Know How Fund, United Kingdom, held
in Bratislava, (19911113-19911116), (C)

The Hungarian minority in Slovakia : a study produced by the Institute of
Social and Political science, Charles university, Prague with the aid of a
research grant from the National Endowment for Democracy and in cooperation
with the Marai Sandor Foundation, Bratislava / Fric, Pavol (et al.), 79 p.. -
Prague : Charles University, 1993.

ABSTRACT: The participants of a recent conference on democratization and
decentralization in Central and Eastern Europe [1] unanimously concluded that
the process of transformation in this region has stopped without having
fulfilled its aims. The Czech Republic is perhaps the only exception to this
general trend.
The frozen state of reform is especially evident in my own country, Slovakia.
Economic transformation halted partly as a result of the changed approach to
privatization. The administration of Prime Minister Vladimir Me_iar replaced
former policies of decentralization with a program of re-centralization and
`etatization'. A high-level official of his administration has even advocated
publicly the return to `building socialism'.
Developments since 1989 Decentralization and devolution of political power
became high priorities in the democratization of the Federal Republic of
Czechoslovakia immediately after November 1989. This was understandable, given
that centralization of state power by a ruling elite is one the hallmarks of a
totalitarian regime. With the abolition of the leading position of the
communist party, the revolutionary forces demanded devolution and
decentralization in order to democratize the Czechoslovak society on the
national, regional, and local level.
At the national level, the totalitarian, centralized federation had to be
transformed into a democratic federation made up of the two republics, each
having equal rights. Václav Havel at the start of the Velvet Revolution
emphasized the need to build an `authentic federation'. Theoretically, reform
entailed dismantling the totalitarian structure of the Czechoslovak
federation, manifest in the distribution of power between the all-powerful
federal centre and the powerless administrative and political organs of the
respective national republics. Practically, transformation made imperative the
re-distribution of political power between Prague and Bratislava and the
struggle of the Slovak part of the federation for greater authority and
responsibility. The outcome of this struggle was the splitting of the
Czechoslovakia and the creation of two independent states: the Czech Republic
and the Slovak Republic. ..

ABSTRACT: The articles are:. 1. The children's rights project in the
primary school "De Vrijdagmarkt" in Bruges, by John Decoene and Rudy De Cock.
2. The European Federation of City Farms and Working with children, by Marc De
Staercke and Ludwich Rech. 3. Kitty 007 : the name by which Anne Franck calls
us to hope and a future, by Lea Dherbecourt. 4. Monitoring children's rights
to education : an Inter-agency approach in the South West of England, by Mary
John. 5. The right to information : too vague to be true?, by Marian Koren. 6.
Convention on the rights of the child : education for the 21st century, by
Alena Kroupova. 7. Les droits des enfants appartenant aux minorités nationales
d'apprendre la langue maternelle et le droit d'etre instruits dans cette
langue - entre la lettre de la loi et la réalité de la société Roumaine, by
Ioan Oncea. 8. Le processus d'enseignement aux droits de l'homme apres 1989,
by Irina Moroianu Zlatescu et Virginia Maxim

ABSTRACT: The articles are:. 1. Divided nations and the politics of
borders, by Henry R. Huttenbach. 2. The historical geography of the Hungarian
nation, by Andrew Ludanyi. 3. Nationality/ethnic settlement patterns and
political behaviou in East Central Europe, by Charles Z. Jokay. 4.
Inter-ethnic relations in the Hungarian half of the Austro-Hunagrian empire,
byZoltan Szasz. 5. From Austria-Hungary to the United States : national
minorities and emigration, 1880-1914, by Tibor Frank. 6. Hungarians in the
successor states : from world war I to world war II, by Pal Peter Toth. 7.
Soviet nationality policy and East Central Europe : an overview, by Andrew
Ludanyi. 8. Hungarian foreign policy and the Magyar minorities : new foreign
policy priorities, by Alfred A. Reisch. 9. Hungarians in Serb-Yugoslav
Vojvodina since 1944, by Lajos Arday. 10. The Hungarians minority in Croatia
and Slovenia, by Andras Beralan Szekely. 11. The Hungarians in Romania since
1989, by Andrew Bell. 12. The Hungarians in Slovakia, by Ivan Gyurcsik and
James Satterwhite. 13. The Hungarians in Transcarpathia, by Paul Robert
Magocsi. 14. Two possible alternatives to Turf war : the autonomy alternative,
by Beata Kovacs Nas. 15. A utopian vision? A modest proposal to prevent
nations from causing future wars, by Nicolae Harsanyi. 16. The Hungarians in
East Central Europe : a demographic profile, by Laszlo Sebök.

REFERENCE TO GENERIC UNIT: Minorities and their right of political
participation / Horn, F. (ed.) - (Publication of the Northern Institute for
Environmental and Minority Law at the University of Lapland : Juridica
Lapponica ; no. 16), p. 70-78. - Rovaniemi : Lappland's University Press, 1996
. - ISSN 0783-4144

NOTE (GENERAL): Framework convention for the protection of national
minorities; ICCPR-27; Declaration on the rights of minorities; Convention
concerning indigenous and tribal peoples in independent countries;
ECHR-5-9-10-11-14-25; ECHRP-1-2;